Hands-on-care. NAE pigs require more labor. When starting pigs, the best results come from caretakers who make sure pigs eat ...

Feeding bread to a donkey to treat whooping cough, rubbing a black snail on a wart and impaling it on a thorn are two of the hundreds of remarkable rural Irish remedies once believed to cure ailments.

Bacterial skin infections can happen when bacteria enter the body due to a break in the skin. Different types of skin infections include methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), impetigo, ...

As with strep throat and other group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal infections, autoimmune reactions are possible with such infections of the skin. The body will create antibodies against the ...

Swollen ankles and feet due to edema, or fluid build-up, can be caused by minor or major conditions, such as injury, pregnancy, standing or sitting for a long time, heart disease, or liver failure.

Erysipelatoid Carcinoma (EC), also known as Inflammatory Metastatic Carcinoma, is a rare form of cutaneous metastasis, secondary to an internal malignancy, more often related to breast cancer.

This review looks at interventions for the skin infections 'cellulitis' and 'erysipelas'. These two terms are now considered different presentations of the same condition by most experts, so they are ...

Cellulitis and erysipelas are both bacterial infections of the skin that most commonly affect the leg. Erysipelas affects the upper layers of the skin, and cellulitis affects its deeper parts, but in ...

You’ve noticed that the skin on one or both of your legs has become swollen and reddened, and it’s spreading. Perhaps it is also painful or rashlike, or you see a sore. You wouldn’t be blamed for ...

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